Find out why this mystery short by J.R. Lindermuth has proven to be so interesting:
He manages to shatter the myth that older folks give up an important part of human nature and also emphasizes that sometimes intimate actions can bring about deadly consequences, especially when someone feels he or she has been used.
Rookie Officer Flora Vastine of the Swatara Creek Police Department is called to Creekside Rest, a nursing facility, where a female guest has been murdered. Ray Fertig, another guest who claims to have been the victim’s lover, is found in the room with the body.
Fertig shocks Flora with tales of senior sexuality and asks to speak with former police chief Dan “Sticks” Hetrick. Now a consultant to the department, Hetrick knows Fertig’s unsavory past and is reluctant to discount him as a suspect despite evidence to the contrary.
Hetrick and Vastine's investigation soon turns up more lovers from Fertig's past, and an unexpected solution to the crime.
He manages to shatter the myth that older folks give up an important part of human nature and also emphasizes that sometimes intimate actions can bring about deadly consequences, especially when someone feels he or she has been used.
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The Man Everyone Loved by J. R. Lindermuth
Rookie Officer Flora Vastine of the Swatara Creek Police Department is called to Creekside Rest, a nursing facility, where a female guest has been murdered. Ray Fertig, another guest who claims to have been the victim’s lover, is found in the room with the body.
Fertig shocks Flora with tales of senior sexuality and asks to speak with former police chief Dan “Sticks” Hetrick. Now a consultant to the department, Hetrick knows Fertig’s unsavory past and is reluctant to discount him as a suspect despite evidence to the contrary.
Hetrick and Vastine's investigation soon turns up more lovers from Fertig's past, and an unexpected solution to the crime.